
Overview
Background
Dr Eve Massingham was a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Law, The University of Queensland looking at the diverse ways in which the law constrains or enables autonomous functions of military platforms, systems and weapons from September 2019 - August 2022. She is the co-editor of Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law (Routledge, 2020) and she has published a number of book chapters and journal articles in the fields of international humanitarian law and international law and the use of force. Eve is currently the International Committee of the Red Cross' Regional Legal Adviser for the Pacific. Eve has also worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross as the Regional Legal Adviser for East Africa and as a Policy Adviser in the Legal Division in Geneva as well as for Australian Red Cross as an International Humanitarian Law officer. She began her career at (then) Freehills (admitted 2004) and was an Associate to Justice Collier at the Federal Court of Australia. Eve has also served as an Australian Army Reserve Officer. Eve holds a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from Queensland University of Technology, a Master of International and Community Development from Deakin University, an LLM (Distinction) from King's College London and a PhD from the University of Queensland.
Availability
- Dr Eve Massingham is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2021
Other Outputs
Ensuring respect for international humanitarian law well beyond the battlefield
Lloydd, Marnie and Massingham, Eve (2021, 05 29). Ensuring respect for international humanitarian law well beyond the battlefield ANZSIL Perspectives
2021
Conference Publication
Taking care against the computer: precautions against military operations on digital infrastructure powered by artificial intelligence
Massingham, Eve and McKenzie, Simon (2021). Taking care against the computer: precautions against military operations on digital infrastructure powered by artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence and Normative Challenges: International and Comparative Legal Perspectives, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1-2 April 2021.
2021
Book Chapter
Common Article 1: emerging themes
Massingham, Eve and McConnachie, Annabel (2021). Common Article 1: emerging themes. Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law. (pp. 263-273) edited by Eve Massingham and Annabel McConnachie. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429197628-17
2021
Book Chapter
Weapons and the obligation to ensure respect for IHL
Massingham, Eve (2021). Weapons and the obligation to ensure respect for IHL. Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law. (pp. 115-131) edited by Massingham, Eve and McConnachie, Annabel . Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429197628-8
2020
Other Outputs
Radio silence: autonomous military aircraft and the importance of communication
Massingham, Eve (2020, 12 08). Radio silence: autonomous military aircraft and the importance of communication Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law Blog 1-1.
2020
Other Outputs
Australian special forces war crimes prosecutions: crucial but just one aspect when it comes to respect for the laws of war
Massingham, Eve (2020, 11 20). Australian special forces war crimes prosecutions: crucial but just one aspect when it comes to respect for the laws of war Opinio Juris
2020
Journal Article
Radio silence: autonomous military aircraft and the importance of communication for their use in peace time and in times of armed conflict under international law
Massingham, Eve (2020). Radio silence: autonomous military aircraft and the importance of communication for their use in peace time and in times of armed conflict under international law. Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law , 1 (1), 184-208.
2020
Other Outputs
Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law: what it looks like in practice
Massingham, Eve and McConnachie, Annabel (2020, 10 08). Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law: what it looks like in practice ILA Reporter
2020
Other Outputs
Are autonomous weapons systems prohibited?
Liivoja, Rain, Massingham, Eve, McFarland, Tim and McKenzie, Simon (2020, 09 09). Are autonomous weapons systems prohibited? GameChanger
2020
Other Outputs
Submission to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Cyber and Critical Technology Engagement Strategy
Nabbs-Keller, Greta, Ko, Ryan, Axelsen, Michael, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Dowsett, Dallas, Liivoja, Rain, Maher, Ray, Massingham, Eve, McEwan, Chris, McKenzie, Simon, O’Quinn, Richard, Radke, Amelia and Williams, John (2020). Submission to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Cyber and Critical Technology Engagement Strategy. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2020
Other Outputs
Command in the age of autonomy–unanswered questions for military operations
Massingham, Eve, McKenzie, Simon and Liivoja, Rain (2020, 05 01). Command in the age of autonomy–unanswered questions for military operations Opinio Juris
2020
Book Chapter
Humanitarian relief operations
Massingham, Eve and Thynne, Kelisiana (2020). Humanitarian relief operations. The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law. (pp. 319-338) edited by Ben Saul and Dapo Akande. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2020
Book Chapter
Common Article 1: an introduction
Massingham, Eve and McConnachie, Annabel (2020). Common Article 1: an introduction. Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law. (pp. 1-11) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429197628-1
2020
Conference Publication
Navigating to autonomy: legal questions in the use of autonomous aerial vehicles by the Australian military
Massingham, Eve (2020). Navigating to autonomy: legal questions in the use of autonomous aerial vehicles by the Australian military. ANZSIL International Peace and Security Interest Group Seminar Series 2020, Online, 24 July 2020.
2020
Book
Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law
Massingham, Eve and McConnachie, Annabel eds. (2020). Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429197628
2019
Other Outputs
The Kampala Convention: key recommendations 10 years on
Massingham, Eve, Cotroneo, Angela, Hadorn, Livia and Ortiz, Alexandra (2019). The Kampala Convention: key recommendations 10 years on. Geneva, Switzerland: International Committee of the Red Cross.
2019
Conference Publication
The role of weapons review processes in determining whether a war crime or other serious violation of international humanitarian law has been committed: does article 36 make any difference to criminal liability?
Massingham, Eve and McKenzie, Simon (2019). The role of weapons review processes in determining whether a war crime or other serious violation of international humanitarian law has been committed: does article 36 make any difference to criminal liability?. Australian International Criminal Law Workshop 2019: International Criminal Justice Futures, Brisbane, 28-20 October 2019.
2018
Book Chapter
The obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law: a potential source of assistance in combating humanitarian cross-border challenges created by armed conflict
Massingham, Eve (2018). The obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law: a potential source of assistance in combating humanitarian cross-border challenges created by armed conflict. Global governance and regulation: order and disorder in the 21st century. (pp. 207-218) edited by Leon Wolff and Danielle Ireland-Piper. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315185408-18
2016
Other Outputs
The obligation to respect and to ensure respect in all circumstances pursuant to Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions of August 1949 and Additional Protocols I and III: an Australian weapons law perspective
Massingham, Eve (2016). The obligation to respect and to ensure respect in all circumstances pursuant to Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions of August 1949 and Additional Protocols I and III: an Australian weapons law perspective. PhD Thesis, School of Law, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.355
2016
Book Chapter
Women and war
Durham, Helen and Massingham, Eve (2016). Women and war. Routledge handbook of the law of armed conflict. (pp. 335-350) edited by Rain Liivoja and Tim McCormack. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203798362
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
African Union (AU) Approach to International Law: Divergent, Complementary or Rhetoric?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Anthony Cassimatis
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Prevention of Atrocity Crimes: Legal Obligations and State Responsibility
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy, Professor Anthony Cassimatis
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